TIRANA - In the end, I don't like these Americans at all, sighed Edi, giving a last brushstroke to the scribble he was painting, in his artistic studio in the government villa of Dhërmi.
He remembered it now, when he trashed Donald Trump before the 2016 presidential election, saying that his victory would be a disaster for America and the world. He knows what it took to make things right after the win. Thank God, Donald was a businessman and his simple principle was, if I give it to you.
Even with Barak, who was supposed to have friends as his head, things did not go well. He took Sajma right into the White House as the most successful minister in the history of the Balkans, and after a while Sajmia went to prison. Obama didn't actually say anything. I just didn't care anymore.
That's why this time he thought to weigh things well, so that he doesn't speak his mouth in front of the chervelo. After seeing that Trump was indisputably ahead in the polls against Joe Biden, he called his son-in-law together with his daughter, and said to them: Father, Sazani and Zvërneci, take them and make us some elite tourism because we are left with these soufflé-eating children. You have seen the world with your eyes, while here the flowers eat the asses.
Although Kushner and Ivanka hadn't seen 'Concert in the Year 36' or heard the famous song 'Triste Domenica', they smiled.
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But that was not said. Biden withdrew from the presidential candidacy, or rather they withdrew him. He was heartbroken when he thought that one day the socialists could gather together and tell him, there is plenty of room. But there he put his lip on the gas. He imagined Mamica, who would tear the dissidents' faces with her nails like a hawk, and Bella Balluken, who would throw her fiery cake in their faces, "don't get full, you bastards want power, because Edi made you human!"
These kids have nothing to do with me, he said to himself.
But instead of Biden, Kamala Harizi came as a democratic candidate, and the polls started to sink Trump. When he imagined how Kamala would become president of the USA at the same time that Trump's toads would start tourism projects in Albania, he did not like himself.
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How could this history be corrected? A mind told him to give some gift to Kamala's husband. For example, to give him the Kune-Vain lagoon, let him hunt geese and ducks like Count Ciano for a meal. As he took with him various variants, he went so far as to give the Hariz their share of the Kolekaj lands in Vuno.
"Shake the country!", he said to himself, "The house of the Albanian really belongs to God and his friend, but for a few days, not with a cork at all!"
Then he decided: Not that he would not give anything to the Hariz, but he had to cancel what he had given to the Trumps as well. He had the key ready: Just as he campaigned for the Maldives of Europe and the Caribbean of the Balkans, he would campaign in the world press for the concerned environmentalists protesting against the touching of Sazan and Zvrnec.
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And so he did. The first article appeared in the Washington Post: " Environmentalists raise their voices against Jared Kushner's billion-dollar investments in Sazan, which threaten the endangered species of some former Albanian officers left on the island since the Cold War..."
The article was also read by Kushner, who immediately received it on the phone: "Mr. Edi, what is this article? Does our project risk anything?"
Rama cut him off in the middle: "No way! I'm not asking about some activists. Then you know that we don't even have a union here, never mind. We just have to maneuver a little carefully, tactfully, you understand? "
Kushner understood the game: "I got it, old man. You will wait for our elections, then you will decide..."
Note: Patronageist is a satirical column against selling pieces of the country every time there is an election in the US